Magnus Carlsen is playing a single game of chess against 140K people

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davydm · 10h ago

Then he has the clear as advantage as intelligent ouput decreases with group size because humans, in general, are dumbasses.

bell-cot · 9h ago

I suspect that Team World's 140K members are rather more skilled at chess than the "general average" human. And rather invested in this game. And, perhaps, a fair number of them are using computers to "help" them in voting on moves.

codingdave · 10h ago

...which is why it is all the more interesting that they are headed for a draw.

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Magnus Carlsen is playing a single game of chess against 140K people

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